Contemplation on the Odu Oyeku Odi

We often live life as if in a race with death
and yet death is but our shadow always a half step behind
no matter how we bob and weave we are unable lose it
until we realize that
sitting in stillness
with the sun overhead
we can become one with our shadow
listening to the world around us
having forgotten about the race
death is no longer our fierce competitor
but simply a part of us